On Fate

Fate is that natural order by which all things come to pass.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 7.2

All events happen by fate.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Cicero On Fate 39

The world itself is a living being, rational, animate, and intelligent.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Cicero On the Nature of the Gods 2.22

All things obey the law of destiny.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Cicero On Fate 20

The goal of life is to live in agreement with nature.

— Zeno of Citium

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.87

Fate is the endless chain of causation.

— Zeno of Citium

Fragment, in Aetius 1.28

Victorious causes pleased the gods, but the defeated one pleased Cato.

— Cato the Younger

via Lucan, Pharsalia 1.128

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 6.37

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.23

The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them.

— Seneca

Letters 107.11 (after Cleanthes)